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Florida, and this work I got [[two?]] birthdays presents from her, a nicely [[bowed?]] volume of Jane Engle by Charlotte Bronte and a peach-colored silk jersey step-in. I think that it is very good of Doris to keep sending me birthday presents. Berenice sent me a white gold [[?]]-pin set with a solitary amethyst. It is very pretty too.

Edith is still here, but will go home Sunday. I expect. She had a horrid tumble this morning against the corner of a bench on the piazza, and dug a hole in her eyelid and bruised her cheek which is pretty badly swollen now and discolored. I happened to be looking out the window when it happened. I think that she may have stepped on the flap of her legging to ttrip herself so. I knew that she must be badly hurt so flew down stairs, but even so the little thing had got up and gone to kneel on a stool under the window, her head on her